Shop owner finds 22-year-old KitKat bar
<p>A shop owner who found a 22-year-old KitKat bar has discovered it contains less sugar than today’s incarnation.</p>
<p>Emma Duncan found the old chocolate bar at the bottom of an old box of crockery donated to her bric-a-brac shop.</p>
<p>The bar’s wrapper was perfectly intact with the red packaging clearly stamped with a best before date of Oct. 1, 1995.</p>
<p><img width="359" height="553" src="http://cdn.newsapi.com.au/image/v1/dae9a98a4c4a6733306eaf7b6b1c8c3b" alt="The new KitKat (top) and the 22-year-old version (bottom)." style="display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"/></p>
<p>Emma decided to buy a new KitKat to compare the two versions. She found the old wafer was bigger weighing 6.5g heavier and the main ingredient was listed as milk chocolate – whereas today’s version lists the main ingredient as sugar.</p>
<p><img width="362" height="557" src="http://cdn.newsapi.com.au/image/v1/eed4848d14185d9db4ad324a87e2b611" alt="The nutritional panel said the 22-year-old version had less calories and sugar despite being bigger in weight." style="display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"/></p>
<p>KitKat bars were launched in England on 29 August 1935, under the title of Rowntree’s Chocolate Crisp. The popular confection is now owned by Nestle.</p>
<p>The recipe was changed in April for the first time in more than 30 years.</p>
<p>The new four finger bars, which can be distinguished by the label “now with extra milk & cocoa”, contain 21.3g of sugar – versus the old bar’s 22g of sugar.</p>
<p>But the new bar is also about 10 per cent smaller, meaning today’s bar contains more sugar than its 22-year-old predecessor.</p>
